This blog is for students taking English 140-189 at Athabasca University.

21 March 2014

HALF-WAY THERE CHALLENGE!

This is an exercise in advanced sentence combining.

Sentence 1: The students eagerly
exchanged information about how to work together on the presentation they were
making.Sentence 2: They posted their
information and ideas to a wiki they had created specifically for that
presentation.

DEFINITIONS

Clause: A clause is a group of words containing a subject and a verb.Independent clause: A clause that can be used alone as a sentence and that does not need any other grammatical construction: e.g. He hit the ball over the fence.Dependent clause: A clause that cannot form a separate sentence; there must be an independent clause for it to modify: e.g. When Peter played baseball, he hit the ball over the fence.Phrase: A group of words used together to express an idea but without a subject and a verb: e.g. In the game yesterday, he hit the ball over the fence.

PUNCTUATION BASICS

1. When using an introductory phrase, remember to set it off with a comma.2. If you have an introductory dependent clause, set it off with a comma.3. Two independent clauses can be more difficult; use a semicolon to separate them if there is no coordinating conjunction, but use a comma if there is a one.